On 5 Feb 2004 at 13:03, Greg A. Woods wrote about
"Re: [Exim] Require A records for ho":
| [ On Wednesday, February 4, 2004 at 23:24:09 (-0800), Fred Viles wrote: ]
| > Subject: Re: [Exim] Require A records for host names in HELOs?
|...
| > Since I have valid reverse
| > DNS, I didn't know you would have accepted the message if I had no
| > PTR record.
|
| That's irrelevant -- if you'd read the text of my reject response
| carefuly
I believe I did. But before replying, I'll try it again to be
sure... Yup, just what I remembered. Maybe *you* should read it
carefully:
SMTP error from remote mailer after HELO epitools.com:
host mail.weird.com [204.92.254.2]: 501-fatal error while validating 'HELO' host name 'epitools.com'.
501-connection rejected from ns.epitools.com remote address [66.166.77.34].
501-Reason given was:
501- No reverse DNS PTR for the remote address [66.166.77.34] has a hostname
501 matching 'epitools.com'
| you would know that it says _only_ that your reverse DNS
| doesn't match your forward DNS.
I don't know what that is supposed to mean, but fortunately your
rejection message is quite clear.
| You implied that it had something to do
| with the HELO name, when in fact that was merely a coincidence.
Coincidence? Sounds like you don't understand your own policies.
- Fred
